I'm so excited to be taking up a Djerassi resident Artists Award in May/June 2015. I'll be working on a new play (working title 'Subversive') and enjoying the peace and quite of rural California.

I'll be travelling over from Australia, and will spend some time in New York. If there's any chance to meet up with ICWP members in San Francisco or New York before or after the residency, I'd love to hear from you. Email: thesoftnessofwater@gmail.com

Women Playwrights International Conference (WPIC) is a meeting place for cooperation opportunities that synergize the creative process in theater for women playwrights in the world. The 10th WPIC 2015 will be held in Cape Town (South Africa) from June 29 till July 2, 2015. And this time the only one a woman playwright from Indonesia is Herlina Syarifudin had elected in that event. The title of her play that selected is MY NAME NAME. Herlina elected along with 85 women playwrights after competing with more than 300 women playwrights in worldwide. The women playwrights are elected from more than 30 countries.

In 2013, a play MY NAME NAME has been published by the Jakarta Arts Council in a book entitled Anthology of Workshop Playwriting. Currently, Herlina is directing her play (MY NAME IS NAME) that will be held in Jakarta around April 2015. This show do for "CROWD FUNDING TO GO TO SOUTH AFRICA FOR WPIC 2015".

The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play of the Not-Quite-Dead Sutton McAllister has been named a finalist by the Phoenix Theatre and will receive three staged readings in Phoenix in March 2015. Playwright Kris Bauske will spend a week working with a professional dramaturge and MFA candidates at ASU prior to the reading. Readings are scheduled for March 27 - 29, but check the website or email the theatre at info@phoenixtheatre.com for times and ticket information.

"Whispers to the Moon" by Kris Bauske was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies as the winner of the Northeast Indiana New Play Festival for 2014. The play receives a full production at the Ft. Wayne Civic Theatre from May 30 - June 15th, and the playwright receives a monetary prize as well. The production is being directed by Ft. Wayne Civic Theatre Artistic Director, Phillip Colglazier. Mr. Marrgulies and Ms. Bauske will attend the opening weekend of the production at the end of May. Go to www.fwcivic.org for details.

"The Perfect Winter Holiday Play for the Politically Correct" written by Kris Bauske is a finalist for the Harriet Lake New Play Festival held annually at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in Orlando, FL. Six winners will be selected in September 2014.

This tale of a woman, whosehusband newly returned from Afghanistan, is coping with an I.E.D. caused head injury. She, in turn is battling a local kind of terrorist, that of the pink suited president of their local Neighborhood Restoration Association, aka NRA.

SELDOM IS HEARD placed 2nd in the 2012 Goshen College Peace Play competition.

Diane Baia Hale's historical drama Rake was named a semi-finalist for Pride Films and Plays 2014 Great Gay Play Contest. Occupied France, 1944: When gay actor and secret agent Denis Rake is sent by British intelligence to spy on the Nazis, he never expects to fall in love--with a German officer. Based on a true story.

Diane Baia Hale's historical drama Rake was named a finalist for the 2013 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition. Occupied France, 1944: When gay actor and secret agent Denis Rake is sent by British intelligence to spy on the Nazis, he never expects to fall in love--with a German officer. Based on a true story.